“Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the […]
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Recently, a retired Senior Associates Director of Financial Aid and current advisor for the Student Services Center at SUNY Albany provided some perspective on the current economic crisis and how it might affect student loans. “The impact of the crisis is not affecting any federal aid,” the adviser, who declined to give his name, said. […]
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Cliques disappear, people unite and green and gold surrounds you. What does that mean? It’s Homecoming at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School! Like other high schools, the week of homecoming before the big football game on Friday is called Spirit Week. However, at RCS there appears to be a lack of spirit during the days leading up […]
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Everything in life has some sort of beauty. I believe it is a photographer’s job to capture the essence of that beauty in a photograph. On Friday, I had that job. I went out to Cohoes, with some classmates, and took photographs of the Downtown area. Amongst the graffiti, and random apparel found on the […]
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This past July I saw the band While Gotham City Burns perform at Valentine’s in Albany. The band featured five members: Matt Stalker (vocals)(second from right), Jesse Agustin (guitar)(second from left), Justin Millett (guitar), Jason Thompson (bass)(far left) and Evan Ambrosio (drums)(far right). Established in September 2007, Gotham City Burns was an experimental Albany-based metal […]
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Is John McCain really qualified to be the president of the United States or is he exactly what we need after a president like George Bush? While interviewing local voters recently about their thoughts on the campaign and the issues, Jeffery Kellert of Albany offered a rather interesting point of view: “If Mickey Mouse ran […]
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From left to right: Fabian Manzano, Alejandro Manzano and Daniel Manzano. Most of you reading this probably aren’t familiar with Boyce Avenue a Florida-based band known for its acoustic-type rock sound. The band consists of three brothers and their friend (Not in the picture above because he officially joined the band in 2007 after their first album was […]
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Seven years ago to this day two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth into a field near the town of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Today, I went out on the streets of Albany armed with a pen, notebook and camera. My goal? To see if 9/11 is […]
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